A raw lens on San Francisco's hippie revolution, awash in peace, pot, and uninhibited freedom.
LIKE IT IS
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This documentary on the "youth movement" of the late 1960s focuses on the hippie pot smoking and the free love culture in the San Francisco Bay area.
Quick Answer
Like It Is is a 1968 American documentary directed by William Rotsler about the hippie youth movement, focusing on the drug culture and free love scene in the San Francisco Bay area.
Programmer's Pick
If you want to know what the Summer of Love actually looked like—warts, weed, and all—this is your front-row seat. Like It Is doesn’t flinch from bare facts or bare bodies, serving up San Francisco’s hippie underground with psychedelic candor.
— SassyFlix Programmer
Overview
Details & Specs
- Director
- William Rotsler
- Writer
- William Rotsler
- Release
- 1968
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Genres
- Documentary
- Also Known As
- The Enormous Midnight, Psychedelic Fever, Like It Is
Cast & Crew
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Why Cult
Experience the heart of the 1960s youth revolution with real voices from the San Francisco Bay area’s communes and pot parties.
Witness the raw, unfiltered lifestyle of open relationships, nudity, and back-to-nature ideals that defined the era’s alternative communities.
Soak in a heady mix of psychedelic style, music, and candid scenes straight from Haight Ashbury’s cultural epicenter.
Hear firsthand perspectives on revolution, politics, and freedom from those who lived the counterculture.
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Questions from the Vault
When was Like It Is released? +
Like It Is was released in 1968.
Who directed Like It Is? +
Like It Is was directed by William Rotsler.
How long is Like It Is? +
Like It Is has a runtime of 72 minutes.
What genre is Like It Is? +
Like It Is is a documentary.
Where can I watch Like It Is? +
You can watch Like It Is on SassyFlix.
